African Studies

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Shaping the Future of Power

Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations

By Lina Benabdallah
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory, African Studies, Asian Studies, China

Probes the power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa

Archiving Sovereignty

Law, History, Violence

By Stewart Motha
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law and Society, African Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.

German Colonialism Revisited

African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences

Edited by Nina Berman, Klaus Muehlhahn, and Patrice Nganang
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Asian Studies, African Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

The Magellan Fallacy

Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

By Adam Lifshey
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, African American Studies

Now available in paperback—the award-winning first study of Spanish-language literature of Southeast Asia and West Africa

After Independence

Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States

Edited by Lowell Barrington
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, History, Russian History, Asian Studies, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

What happens to nationalism after independence is achieved?

Growing Apart

Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria

By Peter Lewis
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, African Studies, Asian Studies, Economics, Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

The story of how oil—and oil money—transformed political life in two major producer-nations

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

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